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3 days ago · Space Shuttle Challenger – assembled for launch along with the ET and two SRBs – atop a crawler-transporter en route to the launch pad about one month before the disaster. The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable spacecraft operated by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Jun 18, 2024 · On January 28, 1986, NASA and the American people were rocked as tragedy unfolded 73 seconds into the flight of Space Shuttle Challenger’s STS-51L mission. Presented below are documents and resources about the accident and its aftermath.
2 days ago · The tragedy of the Space Shuttle Challenger would change NASA forever, and the administration needed to leave no stone unturned in its investigation. The commission, named for Chairman William P ...
Jun 20, 2024 · The American space shuttle, Challenger, explodes on 28 January 1986, killing all seven astronauts on board. The five men and two women were just over a minute into their flight from Cape...
6 days ago · The commander of the ill-fated flight of space shuttle Challenger is being remembered 40 years after his first spaceflight with a commercial spacecraft bearing his name.
Jun 15, 2024 · The explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger on 28 January 1986 is an event seared into the memory of people all over the world. In a new book, Adam Higginbotham gives a compelling account of how, in his words, America’s “smartest minds … unwittingly sent seven men and women to their deaths.”
2 days ago · One such incident is the globally remembered explosion of the U.S. Space Shuttle Challenger. In 1986, the nation was quite ambitious about NASA's STS-51L , a six-day mission that was the 10th flight of the space shuttle Challenger.
